Passenger-register for street-cars.



No. 884,557. PATENTED APR. 14, 1908. E. M. & G. A. BEARD.

PASSENGER REGISTER FOR STREET CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13. 1907.

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EM. & G. A. BEARD.

PASSENGER REGISTER FOR STREET CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13, 1-907.

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ELMER M. BEARD ANDG EORGE A. BEARD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PASSENGER-REGISTER FOR STREET-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed April 13, 1907. Serial No. 367,936.

.lleretofore turnstilesof various characters have been employed for thesame generalpurpose, but they have all failed to accomplisha commercialand practical result because of the fact that they occupied too muchspace upon the platform itllL required too much space for the sweep ofthe arms. If they. were placed on the platform the arms would projectover a large area of platform which could otherwise be occupied'bypassengers.

Our invention is designed to overcome this difliculty and to provide adevice which will occupy a minimum of s ace, which will stand upon theedge of the p atform and automatically register each passenger whoenters, and close the gate behind the passenger so as to prevent asecond passenger from coming through the same opening until the gate hasrec'oiled and made its-register.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the rear end of ,a streetcar showing the device in position on the platform. Fig. 2 is a planView in enlarged size'of the gate in position on the edge of theplatform. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the posts of the gateshowing the connection of the arms, the register in position, and theconnections below Fi 4 is a vertical elevation of one side of the eviceshowing the connection of the moving parts to the register.

- Referring to the drawings,-11 are a pair of posts located upon theplatform of the car upon which are mounted the gate arms 22 and 33secured to a sleeve 4; 5 is a rock shaft which passes upthrough thecenter of the post 1 into the sleeve 4, where it is secured. It projectsthrough the platform, and to its lower end is secured a segment of agear 6; a similar segment is secured to the o posite post, and these segments intermesii so as to cause both sides of the gate to move inunison.

7 is a coiled spring, one end of which is securedto a stationary part ofthe car, and the other end to the segment 6,'by which the gates arecaused to recoil when a passenger enters the car into the position shownIn Fig. 2.

8 is a dash pot secured to the under side" of the car by a pivot stud 9.

10 is a piston rod connected to tlle'piston 11 within the dash pot andwhich at its forward end is connected to the segment 6. By

this means they motion 'of the gates, when recoiling, may be regulated.

. 12 is the register by means of which the motion of the gates isindicated. It consistsof an ordinary intermeshing dial register wl'iichwill record impulses imparted to it.

13 is a hook located upon the rearof the register, and 14 a pin upon theside of the sleeve 4.

With each motion of the gate in-movin forward the pin 14 will move thehook 13 an indicate one upon the register. When recoiling, the pin'14will pass the pendent hook- 13 withoutmaking the record.

I5 is a lug upon the 0st 1 which projects up into the path of a ug 16 onthe sleeve; these lugs-form a stop for the arms and prevent theiropening outward. The angle of the two arms of the gate is such that whenthe inner arms are in a common line, as shown in Fig. 2, the other armswill be sufficiently far apart to enable a assenger to pass between themand take hold of or come into contact with the inner arms. These armswill yield to pressure and the passen er may pass through. The outerarms wil immediately follow the passenger and close the opening behindthe passenger so as to prevent the admission of another passenger untilthe outer arms have again opened wide enough apart for a passenger toass in between them. B this means t e gate is opened or closeautomatically, and each time it is o ened the entrance of one passengeris in icated. The relations between the arms 2' 2 and 3-3. will beatmatter of ex eriment. The anglev and the distance wi 1 be tested bypractice until a satisfactory result is attained but the size andarrangement are immaterial to the objects of our invention, the realpurposeof it being to provide a means for recording every passenger whoentersthe car and to occu y a minimum space upoii the platform whicwould be insufficient to accommodate a passen er.

One of the incidental effects of t e device which will be beneficialwill be to prevent pas sengers from riding on the step of the car,because the recoil of the bars of the gate upon the'admission ofpassengers will sweep across the step. The speed with which the armswill recoil may be accurately regulated so as to avoid injury to an aproaching passenger, and the may be cushioned so as to yleld should t eystrike a person.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire tosecurebyLetters Pat ent is Ina device for registering the persons passingthrough an opening, the combination of a pair of arms connected togetherso as to move together, located upon each side of the I opening, one ofthem protruding across the opening and closing it, the other located atan acute angle with'the first and protruding outward in the direction ofthe approach to means to recoil the arms when displaced,

means to check and regulate the return of the arms to their primaryposition, and means to record the motion of the arms.

Signed by us at Baltimore city 62 State of Maryland this 1st day ofApril 1907.

' ELMER M. BEARD. GEORGE A. BEARD Witnesses:

W. W. PowELL', B. SOHROETER.

